njũi
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
- njũũi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ᶮdʑóː.ì(ꜜ)/
- This ũ is pronounced long.[1]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcũhĩ, gĩkorora, kĩgokora, mũceere, mũgathĩ, mũgogo (pl. mĩgogo), mũgoma, mũirĩtu, mbarĩki, ndagitari, ngirathi, njohero, rĩithori (pl. maithori), ũnyiinyi, and so on.[2]
Noun
njũi class 9/10 (plural njũi)
- African hunting dog, African wild dog
See also
- mbawa, mũthige
References
- “njũi” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. xxiv–xxv, 336. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 449. →ISBN